Evergreen Cemetery: Pictures off a permanently Altering Boyle Heights

The new Serbian Cemetery is during a little corner off committed, commercial Eastern L.An effective. In the middle of hectic roads or any other graveyards, it is surrounded by a chain link wall. The day We go to, I go by yourself one of the nicely cared for stones — of several by means of the new Orthodox cross. The new confronts of a community stare back at the me personally. Tiny portraits, spanning during the last 100 decades, is connected on rocks, except into the rare cases where these include pried away from. You’ll find small children, breathtaking ladies, and you can old partners smiling because they stand alongside. Around latest graves, trinkets were kept to the deceased, as well as in one to part of one’s cemetery, there can be a turkey coop. Friendly birds walk-around this new cemetery, happily pecking at turf and squawking at every other. Across the street, Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Chapel lies nearly empty. (suite…)